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Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer sees pay cut as result of poor Windows 8, Surface tablet marketplace performance

This is pretty much unparalleled. Or at least it’s a decent case of schadenfreude. Per CNET, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer saw his pay docked this year as a result of the disappointing performance of the company’s Windows Division over the past year. The Microsoft head received US$1.26 million in compensation for fiscal 2013, with US$697,500 […]

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Microsoft to release Windows 8 on October 26th

You can pick up Windows 8, then begin working on a Halloween costume this year. Per Electronista, it was revealed during Microsot’s annual sales meeting that the company’s next-generation operating system will hit shelves on Oct. 26 meaning new hardware will shortly follow including the Surface tablet. Microsoft’s Windows Division President Steven Sinofsky made good […]

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Apple Legal Department Asks Microsoft to Stop Airing “Laptop Hunter” Ads

In what may be considered a triumph depending on which side you’re on, Apple has apparently responded to Microsoft’s “Laptop Hunter” series of television commercials. Per Ars Technica, Microsoft Chief Operating Officer Kevin Turner was quoted as stating at the company’s Worldwide Partner Conference on Wednesday that “two weeks ago we got a call from […]